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Research Overview

Our lab focuses on brain machine interface (BMI) systems using 100 channel arrays implanted in motor and premotor cortex. The goal of this research is to eventually develop clinically viable systems to enable paralyzed individuals to control prosthetic limbs, as well as their own limbs using functional electrical stimulation and assistive exoskeletons. We also seek to expand the bandwidth of this neural interface using novel electrodes, circuits, and algorithms.

Congratulations to Zach Irwin for his paper acceptance to JNE, titled “Chronic recording of hand prosthesis control signals via a regenerative peripheral nerve interface in a rhesus macaque,” May 12, 2016!

Congratulations to Dr. Karen Schroeder on her successful thesis defense, “Tactile Sensory Responses in Motor Cortex and Their Relevance to Brain-Machine Interfaces” (May 9, 2016). Karen will be starting her postdoc at Columbia University in July.

Congratulations to Karen Schroeder for her paper acceptance to NeuroImage, titled “Disruption of Corticocortical Information Transfer during Ketamine Anesthesia in the Primate Brain,” April 15, 2016!

Congratulations to Dr. Zach Irwin on his successful thesis defense, “Restoring Fine Motor Skills through Neural Interface Technology” (March 24, 2016). Zach will be staying on as a postdoc.

Congratulations to Karlo Malaga for his paper acceptance to JNE, titled “Data-driven model comparing the effects of glial scarring and interface interactions on chronic neural recordings in non-human primates,” October 26, 2015!

Congratulations to UROP students Michael Kobylarek and Shaun Marshall, who both won best poster presentation ribbons at the Annual Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium, April 22, 2015. Karen Schroeder also won the Outstanding Research Mentor Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Paras Patel on his successful thesis defense,”Carbon Fiber Microelectrode Arrays For Neuroprosthetic And Neuroscience Applications” (March 30, 2015). Paras will be staying on as a postdoc.

Congrats to Nicole Bentley! She received the Society of Neurological Surgeons Research Update in Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons (RUNN) Award for her project, Optogenetic alteration of proprioceptive inputs to motor cortex for the development of neuroprosthetic devices.